Link: https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/congo-basin-nations-roll-out-community-payments-for-forest-care/

Congo Basin countries have announced the launch of a payments for environmental services, or PES, initiative at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, intended to encourage practices favorable to forest protection and restoration.

The financial mechanism, announced Nov. 18 and supported by the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), transfers direct payments via a mobile app to communities and individuals, particularly farmers.

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A headline like this should be good news, but no... It isn't so much enshittification of the technology (which was shitty enough from the start) but rather enshittification of the process of funding forest conservation. "Don't have a smartphone? Sorry, can't help you!"